{"id":117611,"date":"2025-08-04T07:21:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T07:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/117611\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T07:21:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T07:21:15","slug":"harbour-cruises-yacht-runs-aground-off-shores-of-west-vancouver-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/117611\/","title":{"rendered":"Harbour Cruises yacht runs aground off shores of West Vancouver &#8211; BC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A passenger vessel known for cruises around the waters of Vancouver ended up in a precarious situation Sunday with passengers on board.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Joint Rescue Coordination Centre Victoria says it learned MV Harbour Princess ran aground off West Vancouver late Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>MV Harbour Princess\u00a0belongs to Harbour Cruises, a local cruise ship and marine operator.<\/p>\n<p>The boat hit rocks east of Point Atkinson near Lighthouse Park, with the marine rescue coordination centre notified of the crash around 11:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were having lunch and all of a sudden, \u2018boom\u2019 we hear and we crashed,\u201d said one passenger.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear how many passengers were on board the vessel, which touts a capacity of up to 275 guests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a very abrupt stop, a lot of broken glass,\u201d said another.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Rescue at sea performed by Canadian and U.S. crews'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/STILL_OREGON_WATER_RESCUE.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t0:56<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRescue at sea performed by Canadian and U.S. crews\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A large response followed, including a hovercraft from the JRCC, multiple Coast Guard boats, the Vancouver Police Department\u2019s marine unit, and several civilian vessels.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>Passengers remained on board while the vessel was freed from the rocks. It then made its way back to port in Coal Harbour with help from a hovercraft.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe received orders to go to the lower deck, put our life jackets on, and [there was] no problem. We were saved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<ul class=\"l-inlineStories__posts c-posts c-posts--inline \">\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11315129\/retaliate-donald-trump-tariffs-doug-ford-mark-carney-hit-back\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1754292074_613_Carney-and-Ford.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tRetaliate against Trump\u2019s tariffs? 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Emergency Health Services reported one patient was transported to hospital in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>Global News reached out to the company for more information on why the boat ran off course, but they declined to comment at this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A passenger vessel known for cruises around the waters of Vancouver ended up in a precarious situation Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":117612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5252,2147,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-117611","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-boat-crash","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114969292755903183","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}